Kevin James’ Sean Payton Turns Bounty Into Comedy – The Hollywood Reporter

If there’s still any question as to whether Kevin James’s movie starring NFL coach Sean Payton and the New Orleans Saints bounty scandal takes the situation seriously, it’s not. Netflix trailer Home page Team, fell on Tuesday, erased that.

Produced by Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions, Home page Team makes a family comedy from the Bountygate scandal of the late 2000s, in which the NFL leveled some of the harshest punishments in league history after it was discovered the Saints paid prize money for injuring players. player of another team. Payton was suspended for the entire 2012 season.

And that’s why the film attracted attention. James plays a fictionalized version of the NFL coach who helped coach his son’s youth soccer team – a terrible team, of course – during his suspension. (Payton actually acted as offensive coordinator for his son’s sixth-grade team in Argyle, Texas, during his time away from the Saints.)

The preview for the film, which also stars Taylor Lautner, shows James’ version of Payton aiming to be a better father as he tries to help the young soccer team get the action together. each other, 1994 Small Giant.

The cast also includes Rob Schneider, Jackie Sandler, Gary Valentine, Tait Blum, Maxwell Simkins, Jacob Perez, Bryant Tardy, Manny Magnus and Liam Kyle.

As previously reported by NBC’s Peter King, Payton actually read and made changes to the script.

Home page Team premieres on Netflix on January 28, 2022.

See the trailer below.